A first-class browsing experience

When the user signs into Chrome on one device, the tabs and browsing history of that session are available to the user when she signs into Chrome on another device. Note, it's the entire page content that gets synchronized between Chrome instances, not just the URL, so the user doesn't have to resubmit credentials to see a boarding pass or an article on a site that requires a login.

The address bar uses prefetching to fill in URLs and performs search queries with suggestions based on browsing history and local bookmarks. To save bandwidth, this feature only runs when the user is connected to a wifi network.

Highlights of this user experience include:

Smooth scrolling of independent elements on the same page

Fixed-position elements that hold their spot while the user scrolls through the page

Use Developer Tools to find problems—and fix them

Debugging web pages on the small screen is difficult. There's just not enough real estate to inspect elements and resources on the device. Now you can debug mobile web sites with the full suite of Chrome Developer Tools running on a desktop browser that's connected to your phone via USB. See Remote Debugging for further details.

In addition to the powerful Chrome Developer Tools, Chrome for Android
provides more advanced developer features for very specific use cases:

Working offline

Working online is convenient, but connections sometimes fail when the signal
is blocked or nonexistent. Chrome for Android supports the latest open web
HTML5 features that address this concern, including:

More resources

Find more information about open web platform APIs and technologies for mobile on WebPlatform.org.

Known issues

Development is still underway, and there are many
additional features being added to Google Chrome for Android. For current
status, see the issues list at mcrbug.com and
star the ones you need the most. If you find a new issue, log it using
new.mcrbug.com.

Share your thoughts

If you run into a mobile web development problem and would like help, please post it to Stack Overflow using the [google-chrome] and [android] tags.